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Life & Chemistry

Ginkgo Biloba and Memory: Insights from a Three-Year Study

The three-year study involved 118 people age 85 and older with no memory problems. Half of the participants took ginkgo biloba extract three times a day and…

Physics & Astronomy

Jules Verne ATV Launch: Propellant-Filled Success

In mid-February, Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), having been filled with a total of 6.5 tonnes of four different propellants and 20 kg of oxygen,…

Health & Medicine

Antioxidants May Lower Acrylamide Levels in Food

“Acrylamide is formed during the preparation of many ordinary foods. It is therefore important both for consumers and the food industry to find methods to…

Life & Chemistry

EuroStemCell Researcher Questions Amniotic Stem Cell Claims

In the original article, De Coppi et al. reported that amniotic fluid-derived stem cells could give rise to a variety of cell types of different lineages,…

Studies and Analyses

New Research: Australian Toddlers’ Intake Exceeds Energy Needs

Researcher Dr Karen Webb said the 16 to 24 month old children consumed on average 10 per cent more kilojoules than their estimated energy requirement. She said…

Health & Medicine

Global Call to Action: Avert 388 Million Deaths in 10 Years

A group of leading international health experts and activists meeting in Sydney has launched a call to action to confront the global explosion of chronic…

Health & Medicine

New Receptor Boosts Gene Activation from Unsaturated Fats

PPARa, which stands for Peroxisome Proliferator Activated Receptor alpha, is a receptor that can be found in numerous tissues, including liver, heart and…

Information Technology

CTVR and Japanese Tech Giant Launch Optical Networking Project

This is the first significant partnership for Trinity-based CTVR in Asia-Pacific region .Under the terms of the partnership, the CTVR and NCOS – with the…

Health & Medicine

Experts Advise DHA and AA in Infant Formula for Optimal Nutrition

However, when the mother is unable, or chooses not to breastfeed, infant formula should include DHA at the recommended levels of between 0.2% and 0.5% of fatty…

Social Sciences

New Dynamics of European Migration: Impact of Technology & Markets

The delegates heard that migrant labour is taking on new forms in Europe. Freer markets and new technology are affecting labour all over the world, but the…

Health & Medicine

Patients Shape Stroke Research Insights in Nottingham

Members of The Nottingham Stroke Consumer Group don’t hold back when it comes to offering academics their opinions. In fact they are better qualified than most…

Materials Sciences

Postgraduates Wanted: Innovate Power-Infused Plastics at WMG

The new technology, under development at WMG, a University of Warwick department specialising in applied technology innovation, can cheaply and easily paint…

Physics & Astronomy

What Banged? Top Scientist Neil Turok at Canada’s Perimeter Institute to Share Insight on Deepest Mysteries of the Cosmos

In the conventional picture, the 'initial singularity' is unexplained. It is simply assumed that the universe somehow sprang into existence full of…

Power and Electrical Engineering

How Position Sensors Enhance Precision in Modern Machinery

Electronic sensors that record the position of movable objects crop up in practically every machine, from printing presses to space rockets. The average modern…

Information Technology

Nomadic Devices: Freedom and Flexibility in Computing

There was a simpler time when a telephone was just a phone, and all you could do with it was call people. Nowadays, mobile phones come packed with more…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists look at “syringe” assembly in plague bacteria

Some pathogenic bacteria have a complex injection device made of many proteins. This molecular syringe has to be attached across two membranes so that proteins…

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